Hello Jamie! I completely understand why some folks need/want some neutral colors to hide scratches and dust, but please give us some bold and unique colors as well. I have been looking at some of the classic IH trucks and saw some pretty fantastic colors so dipping into the heritage color book seems like a good place to start. For a good example of a color program, take a look at VW's GOLF R Spektrum program - those cars sold like hot cakes and trade well above book on the used car market. This will be my first pickup in 50 years of driving and I am not planning on it being a pavement princess so bright colors will be nice when I have to dig it out of a snow bank.
Scout Color Poll #1
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I think somewhere in this thread the VW Spektrum program was listed as well. The downfall to that program (as much as I love it) is the shelf life of the paint. So having 20 colors, even as a premium is still tough to pull out. Unless you run the program as an every 2 months we pull all orders for electric yellow and run them on that batch of paint. If people are willing to wait a few months extra that is a viable program and worth SM exploring for sure. For the right color I’d spend a couple grand more but it would have to be the perfect color
Well you certainly are right about the challenges of a running a low volume paint program in the days of automated paint lines. Until very recently I was a VW Spektrum Golf R owner and had the opportunity to interact with the Golf R product manager responsible for the Spektrum program. The program was only possible because VW could send each program car to Audi's special paint line to be hand painted. Scout would need access to either some new manufacturing process or a specialty shop - but there would be some real pay-offs to the brand. At the end of the day, I think I would be happy if Scout just offered a few colors beyond black, silver, white and old-man burgundy (hear me Volvo?)I think somewhere in this thread the VW Spektrum program was listed as well. The downfall to that program (as much as I love it) is the shelf life of the paint. So having 20 colors, even as a premium is still tough to pull out. Unless you run the program as an every 2 months we pull all orders for electric yellow and run them on that batch of paint. If people are willing to wait a few months extra that is a viable program and worth SM exploring for sure. For the right color I’d spend a couple grand more but it would have to be the perfect color
Can we pretty please with sugar on top get some BRIGHT colors? I am so tired of everything being white, grey, black and silver. I have always wanted a bright yellow car and I am crossing my fingers that Scout will come through for me.
Assuming you saw the color poll at header of this thread? I think you can vote on three so if you haven’t plug in your choices so they keep hearing us say we want color.
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I’m with you. My top three choices are in the bright category and it pains me to see that they’re not dead-ass last, but not at the top. One is a yellow. Our Scout was Sunburst Yellow and that’s about what I’d want.
Have the Ford Bronco Wildtrak in Eruption Green aka Dark Green and it really looks tough. My other cars are silver/grey but I chose Green because it compliments the rugged style and it stands out. Same will be true for my new Scout SUV I hope. 
I spotted this Jeep from SOFLO customs. This vehicle is covered in our exclusive Kevlar coating that takes over 150 man hours to sand, prep, prime and the blast – this protective coating doesn’t just look amazing but its meant to deflect rocks, branches and anything an off-road trail can throw at it. I thougtht this would be nice for on/off the road. If it is possible? would really look great in my opinon.
Looks good but holy cow-150 man hours! Thats gotta be at least $6-$8K. Guess wraps aren’t much less.
But isn't the advantage of a wrap, that you can put it on yourself, install replacement panels as needed, and still get small rock and branch protection? I haven't ever done a wrap myself, but a buddy of mine does all of his vehicles and does them himself.
I would like to ask for an option to have non-painted mirrors, please. The mirrors on my vehicles always end up with trail scratches (from bushes, trees, etc.) on them and the scratches are much worse to deal with/hide on painted mirrors.Maybe this isn’t the best spot for this question. The traveler at reveal had mirrors painted to match the roof as a contrast color. Just wondering what others think? I liked the way it looks but wonder how it would look with body matched colors?
@Jamie@ScoutMotors any insight on mirror colors? Is it package related or just the whim of the design team
Wraps can get nuts. I got quoted something like $15K to do a full-body wrap (nothing special, no graphics, no special coating, just a solid color wrap) and thought the vendor was either out of their mind, thought I was out of my mind, or I missed something somewhere. Needless to say, that did not ever happen.
You can DIY like Herculiner or something similar for a few hundred $. Kevlar is not a material I would want on the exterior of a vehicle, either, since it is particularly susceptible to degradation from UV light.
I have several wheeling buddies who put wraps on their rigs, or had vendors reach out and comp a wrap to get some exposure. Every one of them hated it because it would almost immediately start shredding on the trail. Nearly anything that scraped against the vehicle would just cut right into the vinyl and they'd end up with little dangly vinyl streamers fluttering around in the wind that they'd have to cut off. No protection at all, and a real PITA to deal with.
WOW! That's a lot of work to just get scraped off. My buddy who wraps all of his cars only own street vehicles, most of which are about a the thickness of a dime off the ground. I'm glad you shared this. I have toyed with trying a wrap, but trail shrubs are always a thing and I would end up all a flutter.
Same, I entertained the idea of wrapping my old Wrangler because the 31 year old paint is getting pretty bad, but the feedback from all my buddies who had already tried it on their rigs was universally negative. The much more popular route has been Monstaliner, Herculiner or other bedliner products like that. Those coatings can be made to look similar to the rig in mehblues post above, and seem to hold up really well on the trail. Here is a link to Monstaliners color options, for example: https://www.monstaliner.com/forms/monstaliner_colors.htm
I run Herculiner on the bottom 12" of my Scout. The Monstaliner would be tempting if it were more smooth. There's a guy here in town who did his entire Scout in Herculiner and I don't like the look at all. Too rough.
For years I've done the old "Off Roader Paint" trick - Rustoleum Professional rattle cans and then micro sanded and polished. Looks like a professional paint job and easy to repair scrapes, bumps and bruises. The only downside is the limited color choices. Also, if I ever want to go back to regular paint, all of the Restoleum has to be removed. Rustoleum over Rustoleum = OK. But I've been told that I cant' put other paints over Rustoleum.
I'm getting ready (next Spring or early Summer) to paint it out again and this time I'm thinking of a yellow with a white stripe and top. Kind of fun that I can change up the color over a weekend. Longer if I have rust to cut and patch or a scar to fix. I also don't have to shoot it all at once. I can do a section at a time if I'm squeezing it in between other projects.